No, sex has genetic/biological components. Gender does not. That’s why we so often hear phrases like “biological male” and why we have adopted phrasing like “the gender you were assigned at birth.”

That is not something that happens biologically. Gender is a social construct. Race is also a social construct.

See I get this and have the exact same instinctual reaction of “this DIFFERENT” but then I think: if race is even more of a construct, and even more fluid, then why is that an argument against “transracialism” (ugh ugh ugh on that term)?

The theory that somehow a black body is somehow inherently psychologically different was the one used to justify slavery in the first place.

I think what people are saying there is no inherent psychological difference between a female brain and a male brain either. If you want to present as a woman and be treated as a woman, that is fine. But don’t say it’s because your brain is female. The argument that women are somehow different psychologically has been…

Are melanin content of skin, face shape and body type non-biological to you?

What biological markers, signals, help to guide my gender? I cannot get behind biology having to alter gender. There are plenty of biological males, and identify as male, yet exhibit far more female gender traits then I. I can understand certain aspects such as aggression due to an increase in testosterone (or lack…

Her adopted brother Ezra who has said he’s 1/4 black stated he believes Rachel is actually creating more racism instead. She gave an interview saying her parents abused her and whipped her like a slave. That may have been a factor in their coming forward. The other adopted brother who moved in with her when he was 16…

Not gonna lie, some of these tweets are totally ON POINT. That being said, she didn’t have to pretend to be black to make those statements.

i dont have an opinion so much as i am very invested

Transgenderism isn’t just about biology, though. Very small children identify as boys or girls not based on knowledge of the different physical body parts, but what they think and how they feel - like Shiloh Jolie-Pitt (now John?). There’s nothing wrong with being transgender and something feels pretty wrong about…

You are still arguing that the main difference is that one is biological. This is still gender essentialism (which is more usually used to fuel transphobia). I agree that equating the two is silly, but please just don’t use this argument.

The hair for real! That’s what I want to know. Is it an over-processed perm? Is is a sew-in? How? Who?

Honest question, could changing ethnicities be the next thing? Like, people are already switching genders with a tremendous amount of effort. Is it so crazy for someone to say I want to live my life as whatever ethnicity for whatever reason? If so, why couldn’t they just make the switch and live the life? Obviously…

Every time I think I’m going to have a fully formed thought about this thing, my brain is like “Nope, no can do.”

Other than skin colour and hair texture or things like that, there is NOTHING that is inherently different between a White Female body and a Black Female body. Only the history and the cultural structures around the two bodies are different.

I have no idea what to believe. Like, none. It is just one of those things that you can’t even wrap your mind around. I never understood that phrase until I tried to make sense of this story. So...bright side?

I think there is a serious case for how we are all multicultural and for us as a nation to relax our idea of what “race” is. The only reason for it seems to be to discriminate against others.

Every time I think I’m going to have a fully formed thought about this thing, my brain is like “Nope, no can do.”

Not gonna lie, some of these tweets are totally ON POINT. That being said, she didn’t have to pretend to be black to make those statements.